Quotes with civilization

  • In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
  • America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
  • Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
  • Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
  • Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
  • America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
  • I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
  • The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
  • In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
  • Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Civilization depends on morality.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Allen It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
    Henry Allen
     
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  • Oscar Wilde America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Jennings Bryan Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • Georges Bernanos Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Mark Twain Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Cyril Connolly Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • E. M. Cioran A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Samuel Johnson A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Georges Clemenceau America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Arnold Toynbee Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • John Ruskin Civilization is the making of civil persons.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Gerald Early I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball.
    Gerald Early
    American essayist and American (1952 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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  • Carroll Quigley ...Western Civilization began to expand in 976....The economic expansion was achieved chiefly by specialization and exchange... commercialization.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Ezra Pound A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ariel Durant A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
    Ariel Durant
    Russian-born American researcher and writer (1898 - 1981)
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